Chapter 269 File 6
When junior high school started, just like in the beginning of the world, Lin Xi entered that class and met her former classmates again.
Her mindset no longer allowed her to integrate into the lives of these real junior high school students, but her calm attitude and outstanding, near-perfect grades made her a favorite of the teachers.
In their lifetime, Lin Yi and Zhao Qiong experienced having the kind of child that everyone talks about as "someone else's well-behaved child".
Because of her extreme self-discipline and ease of life, her family rewarded her with a smartphone, which is Lin Xi's biggest advantage for studying and communicating.
After she and Xiang Xin gradually became acquainted, the three of them left the game group with hundreds of people and formed a new small group.
Another six months passed, and a new person joined the group.
Two genuine junior high school students, one fake junior high school student, and a high school student who declined to reveal their age were chatting enthusiastically in the group.
Having made friends earlier, Lin Xi also came into contact with some new things.
For example, interesting anime, for example...
Another message popped up in the group today:
“I gave her chocolates, and she agreed to go to the library with me on the weekend.”
An old friend is an old friend; that familiar Aquaman feeling.
Then another month passed, and Xiang Xin caught up with the new anime series, while Xiao Haiwang fell in love with another girl.
This name is the white moonlight that Liang Hui encountered by chance at the Watchtower Base in his previous life.
After a while, Liang Hui stopped sharing these things because the other three in the group seemed immature.
One is a fan of anime, and the other two are fitness fanatics who check in every day. They don't seem like the type to understand what it's like to fall in love for the first time.
At the end of the year, Lin Xi will return to Yunxiang with her parents.
The old house in Yunxiang looked much the same as when Lin Xi returned alone years ago.
Nanhua is expensive, and Lin Yi's family doesn't live here often, so the old house wasn't renovated, and they still use old, yellowed furniture.
Lin Xi met her grandmother, who was still alive at the time, Lin Cheng's family, and of course Lin Jie.
Lin Xi faced them with a calm mindset, listening attentively to their conversations during the reunion dinner, trying to uncover the secrets of this large family she was not very familiar with.
However, no, on this joyous occasion, no one brought up that person.
In the evening, Lin Xi couldn't help but chat with her parents:
Why hasn't Uncle come back?
Even if she married into another family, they shouldn't have severed ties. Lin Xi had never met her third uncle.
"Never".
Lin Yi and Zhao Qiong were both taken aback by the address; it was so unfamiliar. Zhao Qiong asked, "Who are you talking about?"
Lin Xi: "Third Uncle."
Lin Yi, Lin Cheng, and even their grandmother wouldn't bring up this person on their own initiative. At least Lin Xi hadn't heard much about him, so it seems something unpleasant happened.
Lin Yi, who was slightly tipsy, suddenly heard the man, who had become a little more sober, ask, "Why did you suddenly bring up Uncle San?"
Changing the subject didn't seem to be a pleasant experience.
Lin Xi: "Hmm... I'm just curious." She was more curious about what her grandmother was doing.
There was no family planning policy in our parents' generation, and families often had many children. Yunxiang was a poorly developed village, so raising three boys was indeed not easy.
But college degrees were highly valued in those days, and families with any sense of right and wrong would never give up on a college graduate.
Although Lin Yi didn't give Lin Xi a cold look, his expression was clearly not very pleasant.
Zhao Qiong answered for him: "There are only two plots of land in the family. Your eldest uncle got married early and was the eldest son, so he got the best one. Your father could only come to this wretched place. The third son didn't get any."
Lin Xi: "It is said that my third uncle is very smart and got into university, so why wasn't he allocated good resources?"
Lin Yi, regaining his composure, said, "Third brother... although he's smart, there's something strange about him..."
What exactly is so strange?
Lin Yi's eyes were vacant, it was unclear whether he was drunk from drinking too much or simply refusing to answer.
Seeing that Lin Xi was unusually curious and took the initiative to chat about everyday things, Zhao Qiong took her to another room to talk.
“Your father and I got married late, so we never met your third uncle. But we lived in this village for a while before, and I heard that your third uncle wasn’t a normal person. He was very quiet and withdrawn since he was a child, and he often caused trouble in the village, doing strange things like blowing up fish ponds or damaging other people’s fields. In short… he was quite unlikable.”
Lin Xi blinked; his appearance was not quite what she had imagined.
Zhao Qiong: "We've tried everything at home, from beatings to scolding, but it's no use. Your grandparents have been losing a lot of money every few days, so the family is very poor."
Lin Xi: "..." I can't believe there's such a past.
"So your grandparents didn't want to support him to go to university?" Lin Xi asked again.
Zhao Qiong: "I don't know that much. I heard that he wasn't as naughty as he was when he grew up, but he was very vengeful and his methods of revenge were very annoying. His grandparents really couldn't like this child and even avoided him like the plague."
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That evening, Lin Xi typed a few words on her phone and sent them to Lu Wei:
Intelligent, paranoid, and antisocial.
Lu Wei: "It doesn't resemble the information I found back then."
Back when he was at the Dawn Research Institute, Lu Wei had a chance to see Lin Xi's background check, and knew what her third uncle's name was even earlier than Lin Xi herself, and had even investigated this somewhat unusual name.
Lin Xi: "The person I've seen before wasn't like this."
Lin Xi wasn't completely unfamiliar with her third uncle.
Before her rebirth, she had Shen Hua retrieve a lot of information and learned that during this period, her third uncle was far away overseas, making it impossible to see him and thus impossible to make a move.
Lin Xi found her hometown boring. Apart from visiting various families for their New Year's Eve dinners, she would spend her afternoons in Yunxiang City.
More than a decade ago, Yunxiang Town was small and dilapidated, with very few well-known brand stores.
But none of that mattered to Lin Xi; she followed the address she had memorized beforehand and staked out the location.
Using this method to find someone is really a crude one, but the time she is in now is 2013, and there is really no more useful information.
If they can't find anyone in a few more days, Lin Xi will have to go back to Nanhua with her parents.
However, perseverance pays off, and on this day, Lin Xi saw that person.
Twelve years ago, this person had a youthful and innocent air about her, and her appearance was not quite the same as Lin Xi remembered. However, she could tell from the distance that she hadn't mistaken her for someone else just by looking at her expression when she spoke.
Lin Xi, carrying milk tea, bumped into that direction and deliberately wore headphones while looking down at her phone to find a reasonable explanation for her behavior.
They just brushed past each other lightly, the milk tea fell to the ground, and soaked the other person's shoes.
"Oh dear," the man exclaimed softly.
Lin Xi looked up at her mistake and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."
The girl glared at her, but her gaze wasn't fierce.
She looked down at her dirty new shoes and said angrily, "Why don't you watch where you're going?"
Lin Xi said again, "I'm sorry, I'll pay for your shoes."
"..." The girl didn't expect Lin Xi to be so straightforward. She wanted to wave her hand and say that she didn't need it, since she was rich.
But Lin Xi insisted on paying compensation, while simultaneously pleading poverty: "I don't have that much money on me right now. I'll add you on my contact list and get back to you later."
The girl was both amused and exasperated: "You really are..."
They could have just slipped away, but instead they insisted on coming up to them, asking for their contact information and demanding money.
She finds it all too troublesome.
But unable to resist Lin Xi's sincere gaze, the girl gave her her contact information.
After the little incident, Lin Xi checked her contacts and found a new contact: Gu Yixuan.
[File 6]
Name: Gu Yixuan
Gender: Female
Date of birth: December 1999
Height: 165cm
Undergraduate major: Financial Management
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